Turns out t–ds really do roll downhill. Anchorage office management and staff are making it to difficult and expensive to work for them so that they can bump back into the open positions. After laying off 70% of the field employees the poor few that are left are being worked like dogs. Most haven’t been home for well over 100 days. Travel not paid anymore, Hours cut, and if you do get days off you can’t leave Alaska or you have to pay for a 14 day quarantine. The funny part is none of the Anchorage elite have even gone to the slope to do the job they stole.
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Do you think the hilarious all-encompassing intelligence that exists in Anchorage will be sure to lay off anyone that does work during this drama before getting the contract for all the work from Hilcorp? Of course...this is how it works. There is, with all sincerely, not a company that is managed worse than Halliburton. The world is officially hilarious.
I don’t understand the logic here. Pulling people from other districts to cover the work and paying their travel but can’t take care of our own people? Frustrating.
The Anchorage clan is the single greatest collection of incompetence and irrelevance in the history of oil and gas. The fact that Houston didn't send the majority of them to the unemployment line is absolutely breathtaking.
As soon as BP sold it’s assets to Hilcorp SLB has been making plans to exit Alaska. Covid 19 and the oil market just fell within that time period.
Typical HAL see what the competitor does and follow suit. There has been no purge in Anchorage. No Furloughs or reduction in pay. The only difference there is that they don’t have to go to the office anymore. They all claim to be working from home.
A large competitor has extensively purged payroll, and exited the state with one division. That competitor also stopped paying for travel and has the same quarantine/travel restrictions in place. The pain is not specific to HAL - it's the entire oilfield right now.
I heard that an enormous purge was coming to the Anchorage office...didn't this happen?
I don’t know, I was one of the fortunate few that made parole.
Are the supply chain folks still in Alaska? With 70% of the staff gone I feel that would make transactions so low they could be handled from any hub.